Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Kenneth,

Thank you for the link. 

Everyone: please remember that while Kenneth's linguistic analysis of
various passages is a perfectly legitimate subject for discussion on this
list, the ideology (belief? lack of?) behind that analysis is not. If anyone
wants to argue with Kenneth, please do it somewhere else.


Thank you,

Yigal Levin

Co-moderator, B-hebrew



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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of kenneth greifer
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:31 PM
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Subject: [b-hebrew] amateur textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible


Experts are people who know everything that is known about a subject, but
when it comes to what is not known, they are not really experts anymore.
They are just more likely to be able to figure out the unknown information
than amateurs.
 
I think thousands of years ago many quotes of the Hebrew Bible were
forgotten and misunderstood. When the scribes were writing out the Bible,
they did not understand some quotes and they had to guess the meanings. I
think they made many mistakes that were accepted over time until there were
no manuscripts with the correct original version. 
 
Some people say that there are mistakes in the Hebrew Bible, but if you
check the ancient manuscripts, you can find the correct version of
everything somewhere. I think that is not true. I think  mistakes mistakes
might have been completely accepted as correct by people thousands of years
ago.
 
I have heard some scholars and scholarly types say that they only believe
what the "data" in the Hebrew Bible shows, but the Hebrew Bible was passed
down by people, so human nature has to be considered. The "data" in the
Hebrew Bible could be corrupted and almost useless in some quotes. So as an
ignorant and arrogant amateur, I have done my own "textual criticism" of the
Hebrew Bible that you can see at my site. You can read my "book" called
"Messianic Mistakes and Misunderstandings: Why Judaism and Christianity are
both wrong about the most controversial quotes in the Hebrew Bible."
 
http://www.messianicmistakes.com/
 
I suppose you will ignore my ideas as stupid guesses, but that is OK with
me.  
 
Kenneth Greifer
 
 
What I am saying is that                                          
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